Adversity Quotes

"It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there because it's not sadness."

- J.K. Rowling

"Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it."

- Ned Vizzini

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

- Rollo May

"I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

- John Keats

"Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood."

- Jasmine Warga

"In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery."

- Arianna Huffington

"What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down."

- Alan Bradley

"A toxic culture is the silent killer of an organization."

- Travis Bradberry

"If people fear making mistakes, they fear taking action. That’s how toxic cultures start."

- Adam Grant

"Fix the culture, or the culture will fix your organization—for the worse."

- Patrick Lencioni

"The worst thing about prison was the Dementors. They were flying all over the place and they were scary and they'd come down and they'd suck the soul out of your body and it hurt!"

- Michael Scott

"If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice."

- Michael Scott

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I had a great summer. I got West Nile virus, lost a ton of weight. Then I went back to the lake. And I stepped on a piece of glass in the parking lot, which hurt. That got infected. Even though I peed on it."

- Michael Scott

"Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it."

- Young Buck

"Accept hardship as a necessary discipline."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It’s impossible to swim, bike and run for the best part of a day and not experience bad times."

- Chrissie Wellington

""The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.""

- Thomas Paine

"My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere, and never did I find a home."

- Jan Amos Komensky

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress"

- Frederick Douglass

"Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do."

- Julian Edelman

"You never want to see a guy struggle. And we’ve all struggled. It’s part of the game."

- Jacob deGrom

"It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays."

- Audrey Niffenegger

"I'm not living. I'm just surviving."

"Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die."

"It's not always tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it's the smile we fake."

"I'm tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for."

"The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not."

"No rain. No flowers"